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... well, just vast and you can easily get the feeling of isolation. So, for once, I am not actually going to write too much about the park and hope that the photographs do go someway to showing the magnificence of Death Valley and the surrounding national park.

If you want to stay closer than Las Vegas, which is around a two hour drive away, then you need to plan in advance especially if you wish to stay within the park itself as options are limited ...

... and pillows of our trip, but honestly it isn't worth that much money. It wasn't easy to find the movie theater near the MGM Casino...and we were two of only six people watching "Unbroken" this evening. Clearly, our convention-going fellow travelers were much more excited about the casinos and restaurants--those places were hopping!

So, now, we are snug in our end-unit motel room (we were thinking quiet with fewer neighbors), right next to the ...

... br> We also went to the the lowest point in North America, Badwater Basin (so named because a mule wouldn't drink the water there so it must be 'bad water'!) 282 feet below sea level, then drove all the way up to Dante's View at a height of 5475 feet, for gorgeous views down the valley and to where we had just been! At Badwater the salt flats ...

... It’s rated as one of those bucket list items by the good folks at Maxim, so it should be good.

Las Vegas is an easy drive from Lake Mead and we were in the area bright and early –we had some shopping to do. The huge Halloween store in LV is – wait for it – Halloween Mart and they boast a mall-sized shop with rows on rows of costumes in every genre. After much searching and contemplating we decided to do the Cowboy and ...

... 1913 it recorded 56.7°c, pretty crazy! We were pushed for time so only grabbed a sandwich there and some American chocolate. But they have a resort and even a golf course there. It is the world's lowest golf course at 214 feet below sea level. Crazy! In the summer when the temperature reaches 52°c, most of the lodging closes but the golf course remains open. In 2011 they held a tournament ...